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EDUCATION
Cleveland State University
M.A. English, English Language and Literature
Expected May 2021
Thesis: “American Dream Illusions, Bodily Commodification, and Intersectional Solidarity in Contemporary and Experimental African Diaspora Literature” (Julie Burrell, Chair). I trace how authors Edwidge Danticat, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, and Claudia Rankine employ experimental techniques that not only bolster the affective participation of their varied audiences but reinforce the authors' commentary, which inspires intersectional
solidarity while exposing the exclusivity of the American Dream.
Cleveland State University
B.A. Liberal Arts and Social Sciences
May 2019
Major: English
Major: Psychology
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ACADEMIC EMPLOYMENT
Cleveland State University
Graduate Assistant, Department of English, First-Year Writing Program, 2020-present
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Graduate Assistant, Department of English, Writing Center, 2019-2020
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INSTRUCTOR OF RECORD
Cleveland State University
First-Year Writing Instructor
ENG 102 College Writing II, Spring 2021
ENG 100 Intensive College Writing, Fall 2020
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OTHER TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Cleveland State University
Writing Workshop Instructor
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ENG 106 Writing Center II, 2019-2020
ENG 105 Writing Center I, 2019-2020
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AWARDS
Best Teacher Feedback Award, Cleveland State University, Fall 2020
This is an annual award for excellence in teaching first-year writing.
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CONFERENCES
Pedagogy, Practice, and Philosophy 2021, Roundtable Chair
University of Florida Writing Program, “First-Year Writing and Emotion,” Feb. 5-6, 2021
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Along with two other scholars from my university, we will discussed the importance of integrating positive psychology into the first-year writing classroom and presented practices that help foster emotional self-knowledge and provide students new coping skills inside and
outside the remote writing classroom.
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PUBLICATIONS
“Teaching Rhetorical Analysis with Claudia Rankine’s Citizen: An American Lyric.” Article Manuscript. In Process.
Thoughts in Moratorium: thoughts of a young woman in flux. Poetry Manuscript. In Process.
“The Adventures of Butch and the Holy Brigade.” Bluntly Magazine. Featured Short Story. Online. February 2020.
“Massive hysteria over e-cigarettes sparks unnecessary controversy.” The Cauldron. Cleveland State University. Op-Ed. September 2020.
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COMMUNITY OUTREACH
President, English Graduate Organization (EGO), Cleveland State University, 2020-present
President, Unite for Reproductive and Gender Equity (URGE), Cleveland State University, 2019-present
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LANGUAGES
Polish: Native
Spanish: Proficient
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COURSES TAKEN
ENG 509 Technical Writing: Writing and New Media, Spring 2021
ENG 596 Independent Study: Women and Immigrant Narratives, Fall 2020
ENG 695 Graduate Seminar: African-American Literature and Theory, Fall 2020
ENG 695 Graduate Seminar: Shakespeare and Freud, Spring 2020
ENG 545 Studies in American Literature: Illustration, Spring 2020
ENG 695 Graduate Seminar: Milton, Fall 2019
ENG 601 Critical Approaches to Literature, Fall 2019
ENG 600 Literary Analysis, Fall 2019
ENG 507 Workshop in Teaching, Fall 2019
ENG 506 Composition Theory, Fall 2019
ENG 509 Technical Writing, Summer 2019
ENG 553 Horror Fiction, Summer 2019
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RESEARCH PROJECTS
Electra Complex in Shakespeare: Goneril and Regan’s Response to Lear’s Creepy Grip, Spring 2020
Lady Macbeth’s Malevolence Rewritten: A Psychoanalytic Approach, Spring 2020
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Up from Slavery: Illustration, Biography, and the Construction of Identity, Spring 2020
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Advocating for Just Enough Freedom in First-Year Writing Programs, Fall 2019
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John Milton and What’s Murmur Got to Do with Him? Fall 2019
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Feminist Power and the Extinction of Mankind in The French Lieutenant’s Woman and Possession: A Romance, Fall 2019
Horror Fiction and What It Teaches Us About the Current Moment, Summer 2019
The Ketogenic Diet: A Healthy Alternative for Weight Loss, Summer 2019
Fears of Deviance: James Baldwin’s Character Construction Based on Gender Binaries in Giovanni’s Room and If Beale Street Could Talk, Spring 2019
The Glass Menagerie and the Film that Fell Short of High Expectations, Spring 2019
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Feminine Silencing in Shakespearean Plays: Illumination of Male Patriarchal Fears of
Dishonor and Shame, Fall 2018
Experimental Poetics and the Evocation of Affective States in Claudia Rankine’s
Citizen: An American Lyric, Fall 2018
Marlowe and Milton’s Philosophical Doom, Spring 2017
Personality Disorders in Tennessee Williams’s A Streetcar Named Desire, Spring 2016
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Black Cleveland’s Ideological Ambiguities at the Turn of the Twentieth Century: A Reflective Study of Publications, Spring 2016
Finding Optimism in Langston Hughes’s Broken Race Relations, Fall 2015
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Religious Manipulation in the Early American Canon, Fall 2015
Emily Dickinson’s Overlooked Transcendentalism, Fall 2015
Paul Lawrence Dunbar’s Social Hierarchy in The Sport of the Gods, Fall 2015
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The Politics of Sexuality in The Normal Heart, Fall 2015
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